2004 President Bush unveils vision for Moon and Beyond President seeks $1 BILLION more in NASA funding!!

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Saying "the desire to explore and understand is part of our character," President Bush Wednesday unveiled an ambitious plan to return Americans to the moon by 2020 and use the mission as a steppingstone for future manned trips to Mars and beyond.

"We do not know where this journey will end, yet we know this -- human beings are headed into the cosmos," Bush said. "Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives and lifts our national spirit."

The president unveiled what he billed as a "new course" for the nation's space program in a speech at NASA headquarters, shifting the long-term focus from the space shuttle and the international space station to the creation of a new manned space vehicle that will be flying with a crew in 10 years and will return humans to the moon within 16 years.

Bush proposed spending $12 billion over the next five years on the effort. About $1 billion of that will come from an increase in NASA's budget, while the other $11 billion would come from shifting funds from existing programs within NASA's current $86 billion budget. The overall NASA budget would stay at about 1 percent of the federal budget, according to White House figures.

But some in Congress questioned whether the funding would be enough to achieve the president's ambitious goals. And the project drew criticism from groups who say the money would be better spent on domestic programs. (Full story)

However, Bush conceded the initial funding for the space exploration plan would be "only a beginning" and that future funding decisions "will be guided by the progress we make in achieving these goals."

The idea behind returning to the moon will be to develop the capability to use it as a launch pad for deeper space exploration, as well as tapping resources on the lunar surface that could be used in those missions, Bush said.

"Establishing an extended human presence on the moon could vastly reduce the cost of further space exploration, making possible ever more ambitious missions," he said. "Lifting heavy spacecraft and fuel out of the Earth's gravity is expensive. Spacecraft assembled and provisioned on the moon could escape its far lower gravity using far less energy and thus far less cost."

Bush also said the soil of the moon "contains raw materials that might be harvested and processed into rocket fuel or breathable air."

"With the experience and knowledge gained on the moon, we will then be ready to take the next steps of space exploration -- human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond," he said.

The president did not announce a date for a Mars mission, but administration sources said the earliest date for a journey to the red planet would be 2030.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe said that "each of the individual milestones and objectives is to be priced out. ... [The cost] depends on which option you choose. But between now and then, the objective is to try to find the means to make any of those debates possible."

Bush pledged that unlike the Apollo effort, which was a race with the Soviet Union, the United States would welcome international participation in the project.

"We'll invite other nations to share the challenges and opportunities of this new era of discovery," he said. "The vision I've outlined today is a journey, not a race, and I call on other nations to join us on this journey, in the spirit of cooperation and friendship."

However, as part of the shift in focus, the United States will wrap up its current obligations on building the international space station by 2010, after which it will retire the remaining three space shuttles used to build and service the station, Bush said. Russia and 14 other countries are partners with the United States in the ISS.

The shuttles have been grounded since Columbia broke up while returning to Earth last February. The president said NASA will return the shuttles to flight for the remainder of the decade, based upon recommendations from the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

The board has told NASA that it would have to re-certify the space shuttles if it wanted to fly them beyond 2010 -- an onerous and expensive task the Bush administration opted to forgo.

The initial spurt of new funding will be used to begin work on what a "crew exploration vehicle," which O'Keefe said will "look totally different" from the space shuttle. It will be developed and tested by 2008 and will conduct its first manned mission no later than 2014. Lunar missions will begin between 2015 and 2020.

The new vehicle will be capable of traveling to the space station. It has not been determined whether the craft will be reusable, like the space shuttle, or a spacecraft like those on the Apollo missions, which were used just once.

Also, NASA will begin sending a series of robotic missions to the moon beginning in 2008 to conduct research and prepare for future missions, and research will be conducted on the space station on the long-term effects of extended space travel on human physiology.

In his speech, Bush touted the new space exploration effort as an investment that "will be repaid many times over" in technological advancements.

Past space exploration "has brought tangible benefits that improve our lives in countless ways," he said.

"Along this journey, we'll make many technological breakthroughs. We don't know yet what those breakthroughs will be, but we can be certain they'll come."

The president also said that "the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math and science and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers."

Bush also made his case for why manned exploration is needed, rather than sending unmanned missions, such as the Mars rover, Spirit, currently sending information back from the red planet.

"The human thirst for knowledge ultimately cannot be satisfied by even the most vivid pictures or the most detailed measurements," he said. "We need to see and examine and touch for ourselves, and only human beings are capable of adapting to the inevitable uncertainties posed by space travel."

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United States Wanted To Blow Up the Moon "TOP SECRET PROJECT DISCOVERED"

In the 1950s the Earth would have witnessed the moon blown up, had the US government completed its secret project intended to intimidate the Soviet Union and display its technological power during the notorious space race.

According to the secret project, called “A Study of Lunar Research Flights”, as well as “Project A119”, a missile with a nuclear bomb on board would have been launched from an unknown location.

Then, the nuclear bomb would have caused an explosion upon its collision with the only natural satellite of the Earth.

By 1959 the United States had deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles and the project looked quite feasible.

But it was given up in the end due to fears about the bomb detonating prematurely and space contamination.

The project was kept secret for nearly 45 years and the US government has never formally confirmed its involvement in the study.

All scientists involved in the project could have been accused of a security breach, had they revealed any detail of the classified project.

The project was officially canceled in January 1959 and the Unites States concentrated its efforts on ‘the first man on the moon’ project.

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Program To Test Space Vehicles On The Big Island

A program to test space vehicles on the Big Island is getting an infusion of millions of new investment dollars.

The state is putting $2.34 million into the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems to help the program prepare for missions to Mars or the moon.

Rob Kelso, the new director of the program, known as PISCES, said long-term plans call for a high-tech park in Hawaii for research into technologies related to space travel and colonization.

One project for the near term is developing a concretelike building material that can be used in space and on Earth. Kelso said there also will be continued testing and research of robotic systems being designed for use on the moon or Mars.

Some of the equipment on the Mars rover Curiosity was tested on Mauna Kea in 2008 because that terrain is so similar to the basaltic makeup of Mars, said Kelso, who is a former NASA space shuttle flight director at Johnson Space Center.

He joined other researchers and space enthusiasts at the annual PISCES conference in Waikoloa this week for discussions and demonstrations of robotic equipment designed to explore challenging space environments.

Another avenue for research would be to develop new ways to extract resources, including oxygen and water, from the terrain on Mars, which has a chemical composition strikingly similar to portions of the Hawaii island landscape.

The PISCES project was founded in 2007 and this year was shifted from the University of Hawaii at Hilo into the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

Kelso said the state is looking for a site for a new research facility that initially would be home to PISCES and might one day become an "aerospace enterprise zone" based in the Hilo area.

In the meantime, the program plans to rent temporary office space in Hilo, Kelso said.

China To Launch Manned SPACESHIP In June 2013

BEIJING, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- China plans to launch another manned spacecraft Shenzhou-10 in early June 2013, a lead space program official said here Saturday.

Like in the Shenzhou-9 mission, the crew might include two men astronauts and a woman, who are scheduled to enter the Tiangong-1 space lab module, Niu Hongguang, deputy commander-in-chief of China's manned space program, said on the sidelines of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

"They will stay in space for 15 days, operating both automated and manual space dockings with the target orbiter Tiangong-1, conducting scientific experiments in the lab module and giving science lectures to spectators on the Earth," he said.

In the coming mission, Shenzhou-10 will offer ferrying services of personnel and supplies for Tiangong-1, further testing the astronauts' abilities of working and living in space, as well as the functions of the lab module, he said.

"The success of this mission might enable China to construct a space lab and a space station," he said.

Tiangong-1 was sent into space in September 2011. It docked with the Shenzhou-8 unmanned spacecraft last November and the manned Shenzhou-9 in June this year, verifying China's space docking capabilities.

Shenzhou-9 carried the first Chinese woman Liu Yang, together with two male crew mates, into outer space.

"After more than a year of operation in space, Tiangong-1 is still in good condition," Niu said.

"Tiangong-1, with a design life of two years, will likely remain in orbit for further operation after the space docking with Shenzhou-10," he said.

The launch rocket and spaceship have been assembled and are being tested, and astronauts are being trained, Niu said.

"The selection for the crew will begin in early 2013," he said.

China initiated the manned space program in 1992. It successfully sent Yang Liwei, the country's first astronaut, into orbit on Shenzhou-5 spacecraft in 2003.

Yang was followed by a two-man mission that carried Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng in 2005.

The trio of Shenzhou-7 astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng orbited the Earth for three days in 2008, and Zhai became the first Chinese to conduct extra-vehicular activities on Sept. 27, 2008.

China plans to build its own space station in around 2020.

"The space station is a state-level space experimental platform. We will make the best use of it to solve some problems concerning the country's scientific, technological development and people's livelihoods," Niu said.

U.K. Says The Space Program Is A Good Investment (PAY ATTENTION AMERICA)

It’s been a really good week for space programs across the world.

We’re hearing rumbling that NASA is plotting a new manned outpost on the moon (as well as launching a new water-seeking rover), and now the U.K. government has decided to increase its funding to the European Space Agency (ESA).

Government officials are currently spending about £170 million (about $270 million) on funding to the agency but will now increase that amount by another £60 million (about $95 million). Officials cite the space program’s impressive financial returns, as well as the program’s potential to boost job growth, as justification for the fresh funding. The funding also comes despite a five percent reduction in overall civil research spending since 2010.

“We have underestimated the strength of our space industry. In fact, we are a global player in satellite and telecommunications technology,” Chancellor George Osborne told BBC News. “This additional investment is a signal to ESA and commercial companies that we are going to continue to support space science and technology.”

Hear that, America? Spending money on the space program is a good investment — and one that world-renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson would most definitely agree with. Tyson made an impassioned speech to Congress earlier this year, urging it to double NASA’s funding from a half-cent on every dollar to a full cent.

As for the British space effort, I think it would (probably) gain another big funding increase if it officially labeled the program the Ministry of Space, as cited in the fictional graphic novel written by Warren Ellis. (It just sounds cooler.)

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Evolution of humanity was marked by vision. Such acumen sparked the treks of curiosity explorers. Caves, Forests, ancient kingdoms shed their secrets slowing, scholarship like industry. Assumed heightened dimensions. In this twenty-First Century, that dimension has evolved into space. Humanity has exceeded the reality of curiosity, galaxies and orbits can be the instruments of peace. Research  stands to improve developments in medicine advances were planetary life the abundant with minerals and soil replete with healing properties. If a system committed peace heads the launch to stars, aggressive and belligerent nations are able to extend their dictatorships.

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Mitt Romney Mocks China Space Program: "Take A Look At Our Flag On Moon"

Mitt Romney hopes the Chinese get a good look at the U.S. flag when they visit the moon.

According to ABC News, while campaigning in Florida Tuesday, the Massachusetts Governor told a crowd that he believes America is "still the greatest nation on Earth" and took aim at China's burgeoning space program:



“I know that China is planning on going to the moon, and I hope they have a good experience doing that... I hope they stop in and take a look at our flag that was put there 43 years ago!”

Recently, China has been ramping up its space program. In June it completed a formidable 10-day mission that carried three astronauts to an orbiting space laboratory, making it the third country after the United States and Russia to complete a manned space docking. That mission also saw China's first woman in space—astronaut Liu Yang conducted medical experiments aboard the orbiting Tiangong-1 laboratory.

NASA, on the other hand, has seen better days, with a proposed budget that includes deep cuts to planetary science and Mars programs in particular.

Romney continued his speech with a reference to the successful Mars rover landing earlier this month: "I know there are people around the world who are always critical of America, have something negative to say, say our greatest days are in the past. Baloney! We just won more Olympic medals than any other nation on earth. We also just landed on Mars and took a good look at what’s going on there.”

The Mars landing has been called "Very political,"—President Obama called JPL Monday to congratulate the program staff.

Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission

Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) is Pakistan’s national space agency and was established in 1961 as a committee and was granted the status of a Commission in 1981. SUPARCO is devoted to Research and Development work in Space Sciences and Space Technology and their applications for the peaceful uses of outer space. It works towards developing indigenous capabilities in space technology and to promote space applications for socio-economic uplift of the country.

Badr-1 (Badr-A) was Pakistan's first indigenously developed satellite and was launched from the Xichang Launch Center, China on July 16, 1990 aboard a Chinese Long March 2E rocket. Badr-1 weighed 150 pounds. Originally designed for a circular orbit at 250-300 miles altitude, Badr-1 actually was inserted by the Long March rocket into an elliptical orbit of 127-615 miles. The satellite successfully completed its designed life.

SUPARCO started building the small amateur radio satellite in late 1986 with support from the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society. The satellite was named Badr inspired from the Urdu language word for 'new moon'. Badr-1 was planned to be launched on the US Space Shuttle, but the 1986 Challenger explosion and consequent delay in American flights changed the plan.

Pakistan’s second satellite was BADR-B. It was an Earth Observation Satellite and was launched on 10 December 2001 on a Zenit 2 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. It was designed by Space Innovations Limited from the UK.

British National Space Centre

The British National Space Centre (BNSC) was a body of Her Majesty's Government, organised in 1985, that coordinated civil space activities for the UK. It was replaced on 1 April 2010 by the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA)

BNSC operated as a voluntary partnership of ten British government departments and agencies and research councils. The civil portion of the British space programme focused on space science, Earth observation, satellite telecommunications, and global navigation (for example GPS and Galileo). The latest version of the UK civil space strategy which defined the goals of BNSC was published in February 2008.

Notably the BNSC had a policy against human spaceflight,[5] and did not contribute to the International Space Station.

The BNSC was the third largest financial contributor to the General Budget of the European Space Agency, contributing 17.4%,[11] to its Science Programme and to its robotic exploration initiative the Aurora programme.


The BNSC partnership co-funded a private sector project led by Avanti Communications to build a satellite called HYLAS to provide broadband communications to rural and remote users. Current projects in the field of space science include LISA Pathfinder, for which UK industry is the prime contractor and UK universities are building key payload elements

Successful launch for Europe’s newest weather satellite

The UK Space Agency is at the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space. The UK's thriving space sector contributes £9.1 billion a year to the UK economy and directly employs 28.900 with an average growth rate of almost 7.5%. The Agency provides funding for a range of programmes via programmes such as the National Space Technology Programme and FP7 and works closely with national and international academic, education and community partners.

MetOp-B, the European polar orbiting weather satellite, was successfully launched on 17th September 2012 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

From its polar orbit 817 kilometres above Earth, MetOp-B will provide a broad range of measurements vital to weather forecasting and climate monitoring.

Designed and manufactured by Astrium, MetOp-B is the second in a series of three weather satellites that the European Space Agency (ESA) and Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, have commissioned from Astrium. The satellites are being launched at intervals of five to six years (MetOp-A was launched in 2006 and MetOp-C is scheduled for launch orbit at the end of 2017).

Weather monitoring satellites are essential in guaranteeing the safety of citizens, infrastructure and industry in Europe and elsewhere. They alone possess the capability to provide weather and climate data spanning the whole planet and on a continual basis.

The MetOp satellites carry a host of sensitive instruments to provide key information on many variables such as temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction over oceans, ozone and other atmospheric gases.

Since MetOp-A is still in service, the two satellites will orbit in tandem, increasing this wealth of data even further.

US scientists Sign Deal to use China moon lander for research

A cooperative deal has been inked between a U.S. group and China to use that country's moon lander to conduct astronomical imaging from the lunar surface.

The International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) of Kamuela, Hawaii has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Beijing-based National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A signing ceremony took place in Kamuela on Sept. 4.

The deal is the first such U.S.-China collaboration centered on using China's Chang'e-3 moon lander now being readied for launch next year. NASA is not involved in this project.

Dedicated to astronomical research and public education, China's NAOC hosts the Lunar and Planetary Research Center and is the institute responsible for the ultraviolet lunar telescope to be carried onboard the Chang'e-3 lander. That instrument will be operated by The China National Space Administration's Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.

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Evolution of humanity was marked by vision. Such acumen sparked the treks of curiosity explorers. Caves, Forests, ancient kingdoms shed their secrets slowing, scholarship like industry. Assumed heightened dimensions. In this twenty-First Century, that dimension has evolved into space. Humanity has exceeded the reality of curiosity, galaxies and orbits can be the instruments of peace. Research  stands to improve developments in medicine advances were planetary life the abundant with minerals and soil replete with healing properties. If a system committed peace heads the launch to stars, aggressive and belligerent nations are able to extend their dictatorships.

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Pope Benedict Makes first-ever papal call to space May 2011!

The first-ever call to space by a pope came through "Loud and clear" on Saturday, May 21,2011. Pope Benedict XVI commended astronauts for their courage, blessed them and extended special prayers to shuttle commander Mark Kelly, whose wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head.

From space,"I think it must be obvious to you that we all live together on this earth and how absurd it is that we fight and kill," said Benedict, speaking from the Vatican to the International Space Station, where the space shuttle Endeavour docked Wednesday during its final mission. "I know that Mark Kelly's wife was the victim of a serious attack, and I hope that her health continues to improve."

Johnson Space Center in Houston coordinated the call, planned by the Vatican and the European Space Agency. Benedict addressed a dozen American, Italian and Russian astronauts, acknowledging the scientific advancements, international cooperation and global unity fostered by their work.

Among them were several members of the Catholic Church, including Kelly, Col. Ron Garan, Col. Mike Fincke and Col. Roberto Vittori, who floated a coin given to him by the pope before the camera.

DiNardo leads group

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo and Catholic leaders from the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston watched the Holy Father's message live from Mission Control in Houston along with astronauts' families and some of the agency's Catholic employees.

NASA employees and former astronauts fill pews at the Catholic churches near Johnson Space Center, where pastors lead prayers for shuttle launches and cater to their space-loving parishes.

THE VATICAN SPACE PROGRAM

“They say there’s no atheists in foxholes, but there’s probably no atheists in rockets,” -Catholic Astronaut Col Mike Good, who believes his faith in God was solidified by the awe-inspiring views he saw from space.

NASA employees fill pews in churches surrounding Johnson Space Center, including Webster Presbyterian Church, called the “Church Of The Astronauts” when John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin, Jerry Carr, Charlie Bassett & Roger Chaffee were active members of the congregation.

“The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston has a special appreciation for all the people who work in the space program,” said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo

“As the space shuttle program comes to a close, the archdiocese is appreciative of the opportunity to join our Holy Father in commending the tireless work of NASA employees and affirming" as St. Paul says, "CHRIST FILLS ALL THE HEAVENS"

"Although NASA does not provide spiritual resources, religious objects—crosses, Bibles, icons, prayer cards—are among the most common personal items taken into space" said Johnson Space Center spokesman James Hartsfield.

“NASA people are more faith-filled, and this is their vocation, They have a position that pastors don’t have and can talk about the glory of God’s creation as seen from space” -Matt Walden, A worship leader who has worked at St. Paul’s.

Its shakeup with Galileo aside, the Catholic Church has historically affirmed astronomy and space exploration as a means to better know the universe, believed to be wholly good, majestic and made by God.

“The church is very open to scientific discoveries, and the Bible gives us a guide to interpret whatever science discovers,” said the Rev. Brendan Cahill, former rector of St. Mary’s Seminary in Houston. “God has created the human person with the knowledge and curiosity to do this, to go to space. It affirms our Catholic faith.”

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The Air Force’s Mystery "SPACE WEAPON" Lands After a Year in Orbit

The Air Force's shadowy mini-Space Shuttle, the X-37B, spent over a year traveling around our planet. What was it down? We don't know—it's a secret. But now that it's finally landed, it's time for some questions.

Despite more or less copying the design of of the Space Shuttle, the X-37 is completely robotic, guiding itself through the vacuum without human piloting and using barely any fuel in the process. It has room for a cargo payload—cited as space for "experiemnts"—but this is the Air Force, not NASA. If the Pentagon wants a robot that can fly through space for 469 days in a row carrying a payload, it's not going to be doing zero-gravity experiments on any colonies and corn cobs—and don't forget, Russia is building its own. Speculation around the Roboshuttle's true mission ranges from space-based nuke launches to foreign satellite destruction.


As it stands now, the X-37B isn't itself going to be seeing any action—but it could certainly be boosting the way for a next generation of space weapons (and the next one takes off this fall). We can be sure there won't be pretty landing footage of the real weapon the X-37B births.

Video: Secret Space Plane Shatters Orbital Record as Chinese Rival Looms

SECRET WAR IN SPACE NASA COVERUP??

Is there a secret war in space? There are respectable scientists who believe something is wrong with the objects filmed by NASA. What is the sudden streak of light that miss the object in space?

"If you're a skeptic it is easy to brush off. But if you are open-minded and you see this, then there is something weird about it", says Dr. Mark Carlotto.

Dr. Mark Carlotto has 20 years of experience conducting visual image processing for scientific research.

This is what he and others had to say when viewing some of the footage taken by astronauts in space.

"I studied it extensively over maybe a two year period at least."says Jack Kasher, Ph.D , Professor of Physics at University of Nebraska at Omaha who worked for nearly ten years in the research development in the Star Wars defence system for the upper atmosphere.

His analysis concluded that the UFO filmed by NASA cannot be explained as a natural phenomenon.

"These are not videos taken by someone in their backyard."

These are taken aboard U.S. spacecraft. so the integrity of the data cannot be questioned.

NASA's explanation is that what we are looking at here are ice particles around the shuttle, but if you look at it more carefully it doesn't make any sense.

If there was a thruster firing, when a thrusters firing occurs the orientation of the spacecraft should change, very slightly, but we don't see any change in the apparent motion of the stars.

"This indicates the attitude of the shuttle has not changed from the thruster firing," says Dr. Mark Carlotto.

BANGLADESH (Highest Troops personnel 2 various UN Peacekeeping Operations)

BANGLADESH contributed the highest number of troops with 10,855 personnel (Military and law enforcement) to various UN Peacekeeping Operations worldwide. Once a peace treaty has been negotiated, the parties involved might ask the United Nations for a peacekeeping force to oversee various elements of the agreed upon plan.

This is often done because a group controlled by the United Nations is less likely to follow the interests of any one party, since it itself is controlled by many groups, namely the 15-member Security Council and the intentionally diverse United Nations Secretariat.

If the Security Council approves the creation of a mission, then the Department of Peacekeeping Operations begins planning for the necessary elements. At this point, the senior leadership team is selected. The department will then seek contributions from member nations. Since the UN has no standing force or supplies, it must form ad hoc coalitions for every task undertaken.Doing so results in both the possibility of failure to form a suitable force, and a general slowdown in procurement once the operation is in the field. Romeo Dallaire, force commander in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide there, described the problems this poses by comparison to more traditional military deployments:

"He told me the UN was a 'pull' system, not a 'push' system like I had been used to with NATO, because the UN had absolutely no pool of resources to draw on. You had to make a request for everything you needed, and then you had to wait while that request was analyzed...For instance, soldiers everywhere have to eat and drink. In a push system, food and water for the number of soldiers deployed is automatically supplied. In a pull system, you have to ask for those rations, and no common sense seems to ever apply." (Shake Hands With the Devil,Dallaire, pp. 99-100)

Department of Peacekeeping Operations

The Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is a department of the United Nations which is charged with the planning, preparation, management and direction of UN peacekeeping operations.

The DPKO traces its roots to 1948 with the creation of the UNMOGIP and UNTSO. Up to the late 1980s, peacekeeping missions were operated by six officials in the United Nations Office of Special Political Affairs, which was headed first by Brian Urquhart and then Marrack Goulding. From the beginning, peacekeeping operations operated with a clear doctrine that applied to its traditional or classical peacekeeping operations for inter-state ceasefires: peacekeepers did not take sides or discharge firearms, save in self-defense, or meddle in politics.

The official DPKO was created in 1992 when Boutros Boutros-Ghali took office as Secretary-General of the United Nations; its creation was one of his first decisions. Goulding became under-secretary-general (or USG) for peacekeeping with Kofi Annan appointed as his deputy. The role of the DPKO, however, wasn't clarified until June 1992, when Boutrous-Ghali issued a plan to strengthen the UN's capacity for preventative diplomacy and peacekeeping, entitled An Agenda for Peace.

The bulk of peacekeeping operations funding is appropriated much like the general budget, but permanent members of the Security Council are required to pay a larger share, and all states are free to contribute additional funding, equipment, or other services to missions of their respective choices.

As of 2010, DPKO leads 16 different missions in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Americas, Europe and Asia. Serving in these missions are over 100,000 uniformed and civilian personnel. Total approved annual expenses are over US $5 billion for the period July 2006 to June 2007.

United Nations Peacekeeping (U think U Know But U Have No Idea)

Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role held by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations as "a unique and dynamic instrument developed by the Organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict create the conditions for lasting peace". It is distinguished from both peacebuilding and peacemaking.

Peacekeepers monitor and observe peace processes in post-conflict areas and assist ex-combatants in implementing the peace agreements they may have signed. Such assistance comes in many forms, including confidence-building measures, power-sharing arrangements, electoral support, strengthening the rule of law, and economic and social development.

Accordingly UN peacekeepers (often referred to as Blue Beret because of their light blue berets or helmets) can include soldiers, police officers, and civilian personnel.

The United Nations Charter gives the United Nations Security Council the power and responsibility to take collective action to maintain international peace and security. For this reason, the international community usually looks to the Security Council to authorize peacekeeping operations.

Most of these operations are established and implemented by the United Nations itself, with troops serving under UN operational control.

Hervé Ladsous has served as the head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) since 2 September 2011. DPKO's highest level doctrine document, entitled "United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Principles and Guidelines" was issued in 2008.

COMMITTEE ON SPACE RESEARCH (COSPAR)

After USSR launched its 1st Earth Satellite in 1957 thereby opened the space age, the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), now the International Council for Science, established its Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) during an international meeting in London in 1958. COSPAR's 1st Space Science Symposium was organized in Nice in January 1960.


COSPAR's objectives are 2 promote on an international level scientific research in space, with emphasis on the exchange of results, information & opinions, and 2 provide a forum, open 2 all scientists, 4 the discussion of problems that may affect scientific space research. These objectives are achieved through the organization of Scientific Assemblies, publications & other means.

COSPAR acts mainly as an entity which:

* is responsible for organizing biennial Scientific Assemblies with strong contributions from most countries engaged in space research.

* provides the means for rapid publication of results in its journal Advances in Space Research.

* strives to promote the use of space science for the benefit of mankind and for its adoption by developing countries and new space-faring nations, in particular through a series of Capacity Building Workshops which teach very practical skills enabling researchers to participate in international space research programs.

* advises, as required, the UN and other intergovernmental organizations on space research matters or on the assessment of scientific issues in which space can play a role, for example the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), in which COSPAR is a Participating Organization & co-chair of its Scientific and Technology Committee.

OUTER SPACE TREATY (Moon 4 Sale)

Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration & Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon & Other Celestial Bodies. Bureau of Arms Control, Verification & Compliance.

Signed at Washington, London, Moscow, January 27, 1967
Entered into force October 10, 1967

The Outer Space Treaty, as it is known, was the second of the so-called "nonarmament" treaties; its concepts and some of its provisions were modeled on its predecessor, the Antarctic Treaty. Like that Treaty it sought to prevent "a new form of colonial competition" and the possible damage that self-seeking exploitation might cause.

In early 1957, even before the launching of Sputnik in October, developments in rocketry led the United States to propose international verification of the testing of space objects. The development of an inspection system for outer space was part of a Western proposal for partial disarmament put forward in August 1957.

The Soviet Union, however, which was in the midst of testing its first ICBM and was about to orbit its first Earth satellite, did not accept these proposals.

India: MILITARIZING Space with U.S. Help!!!

U.S. President Barack Obama & Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have a meeting scheduled in Delhi on November 8. 2010. On the agenda removal of the last remaining export controls on U.S. dual-use technology and military hardware to India, including technology appropriate for development of "SPACE WEAPONS".

President Obama pledged in 2009 to seek a ban on space weapons, the United States should not be helping other countries develop these weapons, especially in dangerous regions that have nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

Relationship between the United States and India. Extraordinarily close since 2001. The United States views India as a rising democracy & ally in the fight against radical Islamic fundamentalism. Ten days after 9/11, Washington began to lift sanctions in place against India since its 1998 nuclear tests.2001 the number of Indian companies on the Commerce Department’s Entity List was reduced to just two from 159.

U.S. licensing policy with India for nuclear- and missile- related technology changed from “policy of denial” to case-by-case review.Since 2006, delegations from the U.S. defense industry, including large numbers of retired high-ranking military officers, have flocked to India to prospect the $32 billion that has been allocated for defense procurement in 2010-11, with $13 billion of that figure set aside for the acquisition of new weapons systems.

These defense industry representatives and retired military officials have served as an informal lobbying firm that continues to actively encourage the U.S. government to drop remaining export restrictions on India organizations like the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). In July 2010, the investment firm Deloitte estimated that India will “spend nearly US$80 billion over the next five years.

GOOGLE Finances "PLANETARY RESOURCES" Start-Up to "MINE ASTEROIDS" 4 Minerals

PLANETARY RESOURCES is establishing a new paradigm for resource discovery and utilization that will bring the solar system into humanity’s sphere of influence. Our technical principals boast extensive experience in all phases of robotic space missions, from designing and building, to testing and operating. We are visionaries, pioneers, rocket scientists and industry leaders with proven track records on—and off—this planet.

More than 1,500 are as easy to reach as the Moon and are in similar orbits as Earth. Asteroids are filled with precious resources, everything from water to platinum. Harnessing valuable minerals from a practically infinite source will provide stability on Earth, increase humanity’s prosperity, and help establish and maintain human presence in space.

PLANETARY RESOURCES vision is bringing the natural resources of space within humanity’s economic sphere of influence, propelling our future into the 21st century and beyond. Water from asteroids will fuel the in-space economy, and RARE METALS will increase Earth’s GDP.

Just as the US space program takes a breather, a private start-up, Seattle-based PLANETARY RESOURCES, is making plans to mine asteroids in space for their precious metals.

GOOGLE FOUNDER Larry Page and Chair, Eric Schmidt are among its backers, along with K. Ram Shriram, founder of Sherpalo who sits on Google's board, Ross Perot, Jr. and others.

For the first time, humans will attempt to "MINE" the solar system, retrieving precious metals that are becoming scarce on Planet Earth as population continues to grow beyond its carrying capacity.

SPUNTNIK 1 (1ST Artificial Earth Satellite) Launched By RUSSIA in 1957

Spuntnik 1 "Satellite-1", was the 1st "ARTIFICIAL EARTH SATELLITE" The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.

The surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis, began the Space Age and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War. The launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments.

Sputnik was also scientifically valuable. The density of the upper atmosphere could be deduced from its drag on the orbit, and the propagation of its radio signals gave information about the ionosphere.

Sputnik 1 was launched during the International Geophysical Year from Site No.1/5, at the 5th Tyuratam range, in Kazakh SSR (now at the Baikonur Cosmodrome). The satellite travelled at about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 mi) per hour, taking 96.2 minutes to complete each orbit.

It transmitted on 20.005 and 40.002 MHz[4] which were monitored by "AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS"throughout the world.The signals continued for 22 days until the transmitter batteries ran out on 26 October 1957.

Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958, as it fell from orbit upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, after travelling about 60 million km (37 million miles) and spending 3 months in orbit.

Sputnik 1 project dates back to 17 December 1954, when Sergei Korolev addressed Dimitri Antoniou, then Minister of Defence Industries, proposing the development of an Earth-orbiting artificial satellite.

SPACE POLICY of the BARACK OBAMA administration

April 15, 2010 The space policy of the "Barack Obama Administration" was announced by U.S. President Barack Obama. At a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center. He committed 2 increasing NASA funding by $6 billion over 5 years & completing the design of a new heavy-lift launch vehicle by 2015 & to begin construction thereafter.

He also predicted a U.S. crewed orbital Mars mission by the mid-2030s, preceded by an asteroid mission by 2025. In response to concerns over job losses, Obama promised a $40 million effort to help Space Coast workers affected by the cancellation of the Space Shuttle program and Constellation program.



Obama gave the 1st major space policy speech of his campaign in Titusville, Florida in August 2008. He subsequently approved a seven-page space plan that committed to target dates for destinations beyond low Earth orbit.

"Barack Obama endorses the goal of sending human missions to the Moon by 2020, as a precursor in an orderly progression to missions to more distant destinations, including Mars."

Obama was noted for "Having offered more specifics about his plans for NASA than any U.S. presidential candidate in history",but his record on keeping his campaign promises has been mixed.

NASA & DARPA Plan ‘100 Year Starship’ (100YSS) Program To Bring HUMANS 2 Other Worlds & LEAVE Them There 4ever!!

NASA Ames Director Simon “Pete” Worden revealed in 2010 that NASA Ames has “Just started a project with DARPA called The 100 Year Starship,” with $1 million funding from DARPA & $100K from NASA.



“You heard it here,” said Worden at “Long Conversation,” a Long Now Foundation event in San Francisco. “We also hope to inveigle some billionaires to form a Hundred Year Starship fund,” Dr. Worden added. “I absolutely will be on board.”

“The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds,” he explained. “Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired.”(Worden was in fact fired by President George W. Bush, he also revealed.)

http://www.darpa.mil/ (DARPA)
http://100yss.org/ (100YSS)

"RedXDefense" BOMB DETECTION COMPANY Co- Founded By REGINA DUGAN

Currently, Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is investigating contracts worth hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars that were awarded to RedXDefense by DARPA under Regina Dugan’s leadership. She still is part owner of company. This is standard operating procedure for the "WAR PROFITEERS"with blatant conflicts of interest like Regina Dugan & Michael Chertoff.

Military memorandum revealed that a separate audit is looking into some of the 2,000 other contracts DARPA signed under Regina Dugan. No results of the investigations released to the public as of yet the inquiries had “NO IMPACT” on Regina Dugan decision to leave DARPA.

GOOGLE Hires Controversial "DARPA" Director To Executive Position

REGINA DUGAN, The Director of the "Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency", has left the PENTAGON to take an executive position with GOOGLE.
She will be working for co-founder Sergey Brin on long-term research projects.“Regina is a technical pioneer who brought the future of technology to the military during her time at DARPA,”

Projects like MIND-CONTROLLED LIMBS & SHAPE- SHIFTING ROBOTS were scrapped for research on much-needed battlefield equipment. She focused on next-generation manufacturing and on cyber-security, which earned her a great deal of praise from the White House

REGINA DUGAN, The Director Of The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)left the Pentagon’s mad scientist research agency for the corporate "BIG BROTHER" known as GOOGLE March 2012. DUGAN Been at DARPA for less than 3 years and was offered & accepted a senior executive position with GOOGLE.

REGINA Dugan been relatively popular director because of her emphasis on CYBERSECURITY matters & next-generation manufacturing, which has garnered significant support from the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, which allowed DARPA to dodge the bullet of budget cuts that has hit the Pentagon as of late.

Dugan also is lauded by for her push into “CROWDSOURCING" and her increasing outreach to the hacker community, which resulted in some quite astounding technology like the miniature,inexpensive & easily concealed spy computer known as the F-BOMB.

"There is a time and a place for daydreaming. But it is not at DARPA,Darpa is not the place of dreamlike musings or fantasies, not a place for self-indulging in wishes and hopes. Darpa is a place of doing.” -REGINA DUGAN (Told a congressional panel in March of 2011)